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Thursday, March 01, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix, 19:30 Hours Wednesday 14 March

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! RETURNS ONE TIME ONLY FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH!

FOR YOU—ARE—HERE!

and that means we want your words in the Phoenix

AND YOU WILL BE THERE BECAUSE WE ARE THE ONLY SLAM THAT PROVIDES YOU WITH

two microphones, five judges, A MASTER OF CONFLICT, an audience, The Score Adder, two MCs, FIVE FIRST PRIZES, and the right to claim the title of

GREATEST SLAMMER OF ALL TIME AND SPACE

WHICH MEANS IF YOU WIN YOU CAN BE POSTERISED AS

TRANS-TIME UNIVERSE CLASS POETRY

and we’ll send you to Goulbourn

on foot

with a carrot

a carrot in flippers

and of course there is

beerslashciderslashwhiskeyslashbourbonslashshantiesslash

slashsomething else

that’s right, ‘cause we know it is all about the titles

and PRIZES

from Impact Comics, Mind Games, the Oxfam Shop (NO CHILDREN OR ANIMALS HARMED), Smiths Alternative Book[store/shop/front organisation] and The Gorman House Markets.

and drinking

Now, not to get you too excited, but the silver lining of the clouds smashing the Can and Corinbank is that we also have all the prizes that Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! was going to give away at Corin to give away to the First Prize Winner for Winning in the Can at the Phoenix!

To all potential five of the First Prize Winners for Winning!

YES WINNING!

So be at Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! whether you think it’s a good idea or not, bring your judging, your words, your hands to clap with, your mouths to flap with, your original material, your two minutes, your no props, and join us to make BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! YES WE’RE GOING TO MAKE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and stamp it with a bird and tie it in twine and sell it as a zine.

Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of Australia’s renowned BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. His poetry is gut, direct, been described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’, and is imagination and reality meeting, sometimes to eat, sometimes to fight. Published in journals such as the Best Australian Poems, Cordite and Verity La, his verse has been showcased at events that include the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam. His first collection is That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime), KF&S Press. Andrew’s next book is for all the veronicas (The Dog Who Staid).